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[[underline]] June 24 [[/underline]] - In bringing in the horses we found considerable petrafied wood a mile east of camp where some little rocky hills stand above the mesquites on the north side of the  run. This valley is full of yellow, blue & striped clay banks that indicate fossils. The little rock capped, haystack butte a mile S.E. of our camp is merely a clay butte, an odd form & a good land mark. We can see a ranch & cottonwood trees still east of it & nearer to the base of the Mts.

Broke camp early & followed down the run 6 or 7 miles, then turned to the south up a steep gulch with clay bank sides & beds of coal cropping out (lignous coal) & over a low ridge, out onto a perfect Painted desert, Badland valley with bare clay banks showing rainbow colors coal banks & beds of gypsum fossil wood & shells & a floor like eroded pie crust

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north side of the run: previous page mentions Rough Run so although it's not clearly read as 'run' this is my best guess. I changed "easy" to "east" near the end of the 1st paragraph.--thomasc